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Originally Posted by hypertonic
Or why hippie jam bands don't like free-jazz/skronk type jam bands?
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or vice versa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85AiIWiYnY4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JInPa...eature=related
a lot of it has to do with whether people see their contemporary jam-based artform in a continuom connected to late 60's/70's rock improvisation informed to varying degrees by blues/folk/jazz/ethnic sources and traditions focused on relatively traditional forms of beauty and tonality in it's many wondrous forms, or they see their contemporary jam- no, i mean improvisation, he quickly insisted -based artform connected to punk/postpunk/avantgarde movements (comprising their own traditions by this point) focused on deconstruction/rejection-of-tradition/wiping-the-slate-clean and atonality in all it's wondrous forms. of course there is some crossover and blending between these two strains of thought/schools of practise (perhaps from each of their very beginnings), much to the chagrin of orthodox jammers on both sides of the aisle...